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My Mother Laughs

Chantal Akerman
4.24/5 (792 ratings)
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In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she would do when her mother did die. Among these imperfectly perfect fragments of writing about her life, she placed stills from her films. My Mother Laughs is both the distillation of the themes Akerman pursued throughout her creative life, and a version of the simplest and most complicated love story of all: that between a mother and a daughter.

Translated by Daniella Shreir

WIth an Introduction by Eileen Myles and Afterword by Frances Morgan
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
230 pages
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Silver Press
Edition:
UK Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0995716234
ISBN13:
9780995716230
kindle Asin:
0995716234

My Mother Laughs

Chantal Akerman
4.24/5 (792 ratings)
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In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she would do when her mother did die. Among these imperfectly perfect fragments of writing about her life, she placed stills from her films. My Mother Laughs is both the distillation of the themes Akerman pursued throughout her creative life, and a version of the simplest and most complicated love story of all: that between a mother and a daughter.

Translated by Daniella Shreir

WIth an Introduction by Eileen Myles and Afterword by Frances Morgan
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
230 pages
Publication:
2019
Publisher:
Silver Press
Edition:
UK Edition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0995716234
ISBN13:
9780995716230
kindle Asin:
0995716234

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